"...in the future, 'Tom' (Sheehan) is a Londoner who has only ever lived inside his 'traveling' hometown, and his feet have never touched grass, mud or land.

"His first taste of the outside comes quite abruptly, when Tom gets in the way of an attempt by the red-scarfed woman 'Hester' (Hilmar) to kill 'Thaddeus Valentine' (Weaving), a powerful man she blames for her mother's murder.

"Then both Hester and Tom end up being thrown out of the moving 'traction'..."